Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:30:03 +0200 From: root@inext.ro (Valentin_Erich_MIHUT) To: "Gheorghe Ardelean" <ardelean@quasar.uvt.ro>, <www@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Valentin_Erich_MIHUT" <root@inext.ro> Subject: Re: [root@inext.ro: Mirroring.] Message-ID: <007b01be16bb$77f28330$e1cfe6c1@inext.ro>
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Hi! I'm pleased to cooperate with anyone who also helps FreeBSD Project in it's cause. >Great :-)! >I'm very pleased to hear about FreeBSD users in the Western part of >Romania. I thought you are using Windows NT. Yes.:o) We were using almost exclusively NT based servers as we based our networking part on cisco and only the serving was acheived by NT. We will keep up with this policy but we'll use any other OS if it does a better job in any case. FreeBSD in it's short testing period has proved to be net better in most things than NT. We will still use NT but we plan to slowly migrate our "mission critical" services to FreeBSD. >I don't know where you get this information but it is wrong! The >ftp.ro.freebsd.org is used only by a few users (of course many anonymous >logins!). As you can easily verify the ftp.ro.freebsd.org is different >from students server (utft10.uvt.ro). >Starting next week the archive will be moved on our new server (PII 450 >MHz, 256 MB RAM, SCSI UW HDDs). > >The connection between inext.ro and RoEdu.net (Romanian Education >Network we stand on) is very slow and therefore you get slow access time >(make a traceroute), altough we both are TAIDE CUSTOMERS! > >Currently we are the biggest FreeBSD based site in Romania (and as you can >see we are in the Educational/Academic area) and we asked first for >delegation for ro.freebsd.org. I'm sorry if I was misleaded by some facts and indirect informations we got from people who possibly know only your previous status. I'm sorry about this and I would like to ensure you that I haven't had the slightest intentions to discredit your organization. >> I would like to help this situation by setting up a primarily a www and >> within one month a ftp mirror for Romania. >> We are a commercial company and we would like to ask u if it is possible for >> these mirrors to get the first mirror addresses (www. and ftp. instead of >> www1. and ftp1.). This would give us some advertisement benefices as well in >> return of the loss in bandwidth. Currently we operate one of the fastest >> connections in the western part in Romania and we have a 40% avg. usage on >> the inband and 12% avg. usage on the outband (which is the one that >> interests downloaders). > >If the FreeBSD Project members make the decision to give you >the first mirror addresses (www. and ftp.) I will change the names of my >ones. I think that we shall try to start this serving anyway and if our services prove to be better (from an outsider's viewpoint) than we would like to ask again for these 'privileges'. >> I would like to ask you (if agreed) to help us setting up this mirror (first >> the www and than the ftp) so we can become operational as smoothly as >> possible We would like to ask u to provide us with a CD image of the base >> FTP image, which than can be updated on a daily basis with mirror. That will >> help us start with the whole distribution set the FTP mirror instead of >> starting it first with the stable and then with the current part. >> >> Awaiting suggestions. > >First of all (for www mirror) you have to read > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ22.html#22 > >After you have successfully mirrored the www site you can send me one >message to put your server in ro.freebsd.org domain name server and one >message to www.freebsd.org to put you server in the list. Thanks for the help and the healty abordation of this case. I hope that our collaboration will help FreeBSD in it's cause and will also help your site reducing traffic. Best regards, _______________________________________ Valentin-Erich Mihut wck@inext.ro Computer & Network Systems Supervisor Internext http://www.inext.ro
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